How the Backpack Society helps students and their families

The Backpack Society is an organization that works to provide food to families in the local community and partners with schools to help those families in need. This year, HR is working with the Backpack Society to ensure that students and families are able to get food during this year, and next year as well. ...

Results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election

Infographic by Jordan Pazos. Source: The Guardian To be elected president, you must win at least 270 electoral votes. On Nov. 3, the U.S. presidential election took place, then on Nov. 7, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris reached 290 electoral college votes, while Donald Trump only had 232. Many states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and...

How furlough days affect the school’s budget and teachers

A school budget plays an important role in allowing for the school to buy equipment for upcoming years. Ever since the pandemic hit last year, more measures have been taken into consideration to save costs, with one of those being through furlough days. Furlough days are temporary unpaid mandatory days off for staff. Furloughs are...

73 HRHS teams of teachers participate in Walktober

During the month of October the staff members at Highlands Ranch High School and the surrounding community come together to compete for the most steps in Walktober as an effort to promote healthy habits. On Oct. 1, 73 HRHS teams entered the challenge for being one of the top ten teams with the most steps...

Meet the new interim superintendent: Corey Wise

Corey Wise, superintendent, said, "You wake up every day feeling like you can make a difference." Photo courtesy of Kelly Devol Back on Sept. 1 of this year, according to the Denver Post, the Board of Education received a complaint of workplace discrimination of a district employee against Dr. Thomas Tucker, the current superintendent of...

Theater department produces “Radio Hour”

Traditionally the theater department puts on a fall production. Due to COVID-19, the theater program had to adapt to the current situation. Rather than the fall play, the theater program produced a radio show titled “Radio Hour”. According to a BBC article, the first aired radio play was a comedy of danger broadcasted in 1924...

The challenging times of school shutdowns in COVID-19

Due to the ongoing pandemic, many schools knew that this year was going to be different. The Douglas County School District had a difficult summer planning and figuring out how they would make this year work. Making the shift to hybrid was a long and difficult process the schools endured in order to make sure...

The switch to Canvas and its many changes

When school started back up in August, it was to be expected that HR would face many changes due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, and one of the larger changes to the school was the switch to Canvas for online work. The platform of Canvas is definitely a change from Google Classroom, the online learning...

HR Chronicle’s editor-in-chief Taylor Means receives $1500 scholarship

       Taylor Means, senior, has recently received a $1500 scholarship based on her work for the school’s newspaper the Chronicle.    The award that Means applied for is the Dorothy Greer scholarship, available for any Colorado high school senior that has one or more members in the Colorado Student Media Association (CSMA). The...

Choir gets their time to shine at Great Works

      On Tuesday, March 10, the choir performed at St. Andrew's United Methodist Church. The event was called The Great Works. It has been a yearly event for choir, orchestra, and band. The main directors of the show were Christopher Rigolini, band teacher, Rebecca Jonas, orchestra teacher, and Sara Garza, choir teacher. This hour...